Spaceballs wasn't the the first Star Wars parody, this 13 minute short titled Hardware Wars released in 1978 was the first. With a production cost of $8k and box office of $1million it even beat the earnings ratio of Star Wars. During a 1999 interview George Lucas named it his favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccfbw2RJ3ow

Submitted August 08, 2019 at 11:07AM by Randolm https://ift.tt/2KM0IP1